The Wilmingtonian., 1887-01-08
Transcontinenaal Wires.

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He has overstepped himself. In his extrem,
| haste for riches this great millionaire has
done pa'pab'e wrong. BY BIS grasping mo.
uopolsm and persecution of all competitive
companies together with the heavy, almost
prohibitive charges he, as President of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, hat
telegraph business, Mr.. Gould has driven the
Postal Telegraph OF the Western States, a
company owning 10000 miles Of lines with
connections Of 150, coo miles of land wires to
GEEK its Atlantic and New York connections
BY way of the Canadian lines by British Col
umb a, Lower Canada, Montreal, Quebec, te,
by the Canadian P4ofic Telegraph lines.
By mis- persistent persecution Of an Ameri-
can Company he las virtually banished it
f ON the United States, or all that extensive
territory between the Rs5ky Mountains and
the Alleghenies
Was there ever such shameful trickery
aud persecution perpetrated in the honorable
name of commercial enterprise
Here stands this powerful monopolst
strdiug the Mississippi Valley, the rich ag.
ricultural garden of the country, and grasp
ing the myriad ply Of Western Union wires
III his giant palms say s automatically to CAL
,lornia, Oregon, Washington Territory, and
The whole Pacific Slope, "You shall not send
single message to New York or Europe
unless you pay tribute (his speci'l tribute)
to me -
jay Gould's charges were of course pro-
hibitive. The Postal Telegraph of the Pa
cific Coast could not carry on business at the
rates charged, it would beggar them. They
were then driven outside Of the United
States, banished by Jay Gould to Canada in
order to complete connection with the At
lantc seaboard and Europe.
The Portland. (Ore.) News Of December
2lst says;--
Along the Pac fic Coast, from New West
minister to San Frauc SEQ, there has been
quietly pushing ahead during the past ninet,
day s one of the greatest enterprises under
taken in the great West since the Pac fic rail
roads, and one that is to be received with
open arms by the MASSES o. the people when
Vt is completed, FOR 1t will free them from
the clutches of the greatest and most heart
less monopoly that ever cursed the world.
Mention has frequently been made in the
Neus of the progress n the Pacific Postal
Telegraph, which, earl in the coming year,
VIII give San Flauciu53 aud Portland, and
all points, in fact, betwssa the former cit,
aud New Westminster, Il O., competing
line to all points East, az lell as cable com
muniOat'on with The olo World.
The Western Union company, partly BY
its own ard partly by lin Sltaed by it from
the Union and Central Pacific railroads, has
hitherto controlled aud nonopolztd the tel
graph service between the Atlantic and Pa
cifc States. The new line of which tie
Portland Necs speaks viii give independent
telegi aph COMMUNICATION between al! parts
Of the Pacific Coast and all parts of the At
antc States. Its ttauscontiDental connec-
tion is by the Canadian Pacific Telegraph.
By the completion Of this enterprise of the
Postal Telegraph Company which is expect.
cd by next March the public on both ocean,
will have the use of a new AMI competing
line Of telegraph, well built and connecting
on this side with the Commercial Cables fo
Europe perfectly independent of Jay Gonlc
and the Western Union Company.
But at what a sacrifice to American busi
ness and commercial col a on The Who'll
of the central States are laid under prohib
tive interdict and the central connectin,
chain of splendid telegraph business there
by sacrificed to monopoly-,be enterpris
which was to free the country being drive
to Punishment in Canada, thus necessitatin
long circuit although it must be added a
the advantage of cheaper telegraph serN
ice
The President OF the Pacific Postal Telt
graph says :-"our land line system consist
Of about sixty thousand miles Of wire, owl
ed, controlled aud operated by our company
touching neatly all the imn~+ssRt bnsines
centres Of the United States and by CONNER
cial (Mackay- Bennett) Cables to all parts {
the world.
In additiau to the sixty thousand miles {
land line wires mentioned above we E,
change business with the Baltimore an
Ohio Telegraph Company, which compar
: alone has about forty thousand miles OF wire
The Baltimore and Ohio Company and ou
Company are on the most friendly term
thereby giving our company the facilities {
! reaching points not yet covered by the Po
tai Cumpany's system As, for instdhc
+ should a message be handed in at any
I our offices on the Pacific Coast destined to
: noint on the Baltimore and Ohio whero Il